Southeastern Maternal Health Community Implementation Project

The objective of this project is to test implementation of Pre-pregnancy Counseling with father involvement in community-based settings to improve cardiovascular health outcomes before and during pregnancy in Georgia and South Carolina.

We will conduct a community informed needs and assets assessment with our diverse stakeholders to identify opportunities and barriers and develop a stakeholder-informed implementation plan. We will then use the implementation plan to pilot pre-pregnancy counseling with father involvement in community-based settings. We will critically assess the context, identify potential barriers and facilitators, and iteratively adapt the way pre-pregnancy counseling could be implemented in diverse settings. These findings will support future research to identify barriers and opportunities for scalable and sustainable approaches to implementing evidence-based strategies to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality in Georgia and South Carolina’s vulnerable communities